“Will you stay? I think I'd sleep better if you stayed here tonight. Then we could miss them together.”
“Stay here tonight, Jacqueline. I need to keep you here, at least tonight. Please.”
“Will you stay with me? I think I'll sleep better. I swear I won't hurt you.”
“But could you just... stay for tonight?”
“We could run away. I'd stay with you.”
“Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.”